PSB parts ways with senior employee after new information emerges in Craswell case [Video]

The Public Schools Branch says a senior employee is no longer with the organization, after it emerged that the person knew about a 2023 complaint involving substitute teacher Matthew Craswell while involved in the investigation of a 2024 incident at a different P.E.I. school. 

Craswell pleaded guilty last month to one count of sexual interference over the way in which he touched a young female student at Stratford’s Glen Stewart Primary School during a classroom game in April 2024. 

The Public Schools Branch had previously said nobody dealing with the 2024 complaint knew there had been a similar allegation at West Kent Elementary School in Charlottetown in June 2023.

If the branch had known of the earlier incident, PSB director Tracy Beaulieu has maintained, Craswell’s actions would have been reported to “the appropriate authorities.”  

But on Friday, Beaulieu sent out a letter to parents with new information. 

“This week, new …